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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve sold the movie options for the Jeff Aiken series (Zero Day, Trojan Horse, and the forthcoming Rogue Code)! The buyer has produced several major films and believes in the importance and timeliness of the subject matter. Work on the first movie is starting immediately… Read the Rest »

Government Technology has published a nice profile of me and my fiction, discussing how Zero Day and Trojan Horse both reflect the reality of the cybersecurity landscape. It includes excerpts from an interview I did for them that explain what motivated me to try my hand at fiction and my… Read the Rest »

The Road to Zero Day: Idea to Manuscript My idea for writing Zero Day originates back in the early 2000’s. It was then that a string of new, explosive virus outbreaks brought malware to the public’s attention. The first automatically spreading virus, called a worm, was Happy99. It spammed an… Read the Rest »